In season one, Buffy Anne Summers arrives is Sunnydale. On her first day at Sunnydale High School, she meets Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Cordelia Chase, Rupert Giles, and Jesse. Before her first day at school ends, she discovers that her calling as the Slayer followed her back here. Before she moved to Sunnydale, she had been booted from her school in LA after she burnt down the gymnasium because it was infested with vampires. Xander and Willow then become Buffy's best friends who fight evil with her. Cordelia, with her first intention being to become Buffy's friend, treats Buffy like an outcast after she joins Willow and Xander's group. In the season, Buffy fights many vampires and demons with her watcher (Rupert Giles) and her two friends, Willow and Xander. In the season finale, Buffy learns that she will face the Master and die. After she has a breakdown, she realizes that she must fulfill the prophecy and she dies at the hands of the Master when he bites her and drops her in a puddle, where she dies. Xander brings her back to life and then Buffy, alongside Xander and Angel, defeats the Master.
In season two, Buffy continues to deal with her calling as the Slayer and finds forbidden love with the mysterious and dark vampire Angel. In the episode "Surprise," Buffy turns 17 and loses her virginity to Angel after she and him first face the Judge in Drusilla and Spike's lair. When Buffy does this, Angel loses his soul and unleashes his evil side, Angelus. Angelus then proceeds to subject the characters to mental and physical torture for the remainder of the season. Angelus murders Giles' girlfriend Jenny Calendar when Drusilla finds out that she found a way to restore Angel's soul. After Jenny's death, Giles battles Angelus in a rage and Buffy rescues him. In the final season, Buffy is forced to reveal her identity as the Slayer to her mother, who rejects her. After one last battle with Angelus, she sends him to hell to save the world. Before he is stabbed by Buffy, Angel is brought back by Willow but it was too late. Buffy then leaves Sunnydale.
In season three, Buffy reconnects with her friends and family and has to make decisions regarding her relationship with Angel. The arrival of a rebellious new Slayer, Faith Lehane, also complicates Buffy's life more. As Faith becomes more and more destructive, evil, and disloyal, Buffy realizes that she must do something about it. When Faith's new watcher, Gwenlyon Post, arrives in Sunnydale to train her, a dangerous glove arrives (episode "Revelations") and after a Slayer vs Slayer battle at the end of the episode, Gwenlyon is revealed to be evil. Buffy defeats Post and she and Faith reconcile. Then Buffy and Faith are assigned Wesley Wyndom Pryce After Faith accidentally murders a man when Buffy and her are on their way to rescue Giles and Wesley from Blob Monster, Faith becomes evil and tells Buffy that she doesn't care she killed an innocent man. Faith tells Giles that Buffy killed the man instead, but Giles doesn't believe her and they all realize that something is seriously wrong with Faith. In the season finale, Buffy and Faith face off and Buffy stabs Faith, who then throws herself off a building, landing her in a coma. Then her and the graduating class defeat Mayor Wilkins when he turns into a gigantic snake (after he eats Mr. Snyder). Angel then leaves Sunnydale.
In the fourth season, Buffy must balance her Slayer duties with her real and new life as a college student at UC Sunnydale. During the season, Buffy becomes increasingly disconnected from her friends. Buffy eventually finds a new love interest in Riley Finn, Maggie Walsh's TA. He is also a soldier in a demon-hunting government task force (Buffy doesn't know he's in it) that the gang is trying to find out about. After Buffy and Riley discover each other battling The Gentlemen, Buffy and Riley know about each other's secret identities. Maggie Walsh is murdered by her demon-human-machine hybrid Adam, who escapes and murders a young boy and a demon. Buffy then literally becomes one with her friends and defeats Adam at the end of the season. In the last episode of the season, The First Slayer terrorizes the gang in their dreams and Buffy faces off against the First Slayer.
In the fifth season, Buffy battles the Hell-goddess (and "Hell-*****," as said by Buffy) and fully embraces her destiny. A younger sister named Dawn arrives after Buffy faces off against Dracula in the first episode. Her existence is integrated with the other characters. Buffy suffers emotional turmoil through the season, including the realization that Dawn is not her real sister and that her relationship with Riley is deteriorating. During the end of the season, Buffy's mother dies of a brain aneurysm. In the finale, Buffy kills herself to save Dawn at the top of a tower, jumping into Glory's interdimensional portal and closing it.
In season six, Buffy struggles with depression and loss after being ripped out of Heaven by her best friends, who bring her back from the dead. Forced to take a job at the Doublemeat Palace, she embarks on a violently sexual relationship with Spike. As the season draws to a close, Buffy battles Willow when she becomes a psychotic dark-magic witch chick. When Warren shoots both Buffy and Tara (killing Tara), it causes Willow to become an evil witch. Xander then saves the world when he gets to her.
In season seven, Buffy is confronted with the dangers of facing the First Evil and becoming the leader to Potential Slayers, who become increasingly more alienated to her tactics. During the season, Buffy battles a super-vampire, and is almost killed by it. She finally defeats him after a major beating. She also loses many girls when she must battle a super-priest, however, she splits him in half with a giant axe. In the series finale, Buffy shares her power with fellow Slayer before leading them into an epic battle against an army of Turok-han vamps. She also confesses her love to Spike before he dies, but he doesn't believe her. She grasps his hand and fire spreads on their hands. As the high school comes down around them, Spike is dusted by the necklace and Buffy leaves the school just in time but the rest sped off on a bus already. Running atop falling buildings, Buffy flings herself on the top of the bus. The series ends with Faith, Dawn, Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles looking out at the ruined Sunnydale, which was sucked into a giant hole and destroyed. The "Welcome To Sunnydale" sign falls into the hole. The scene ends with Buffy's smiling face. In the battle, Anya was murdered by Bringers while she was saving Andrew's life.Following the end of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Buffy Summers maintains a presences in the fifth season of "Angel," but doesn't appear onscreen. In the episode "The Girl in Question," Angel and a resurrected Spike travel to Rome and learn Buffy is dating the Immortal.
As the main character of the series, Buffy appears in almost all "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8" comic books. The series is continued in this book series. Joss Whedon comment that the comic books are the official continuation of the series and that Buffy is the leader of a global organization the recruits and trains Slayers. In one comic, Buffy shares a lesbianic encounter with fellow Slayer, Satsu, however, she leaves after realizing Buffy can't return her feelings.
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